Throwing our ladies for one last loop before they can really learn and accept everything about each other.

Jane groaned and stretched in the empty bed in Maura's room. She heard the shower running and decided to go downstairs to make coffee. She got two mugs ready and set them under Maura's coffee maker as she hummed the intro to 'The Jetsons.' She had gotten in the habit of thinking about the show whenever she used the coffee maker. The sound of Jane humming in the kitchen spurred Bass to life and he crawled out from underneath the coffee table to go see his second favorite person in the world. He quietly shuffled over to Jane and bit the hem of her pants to get her attention.

"Well, good morning to you too," Jane spoke as she finished making her coffee. She squatted to sit on the ground next to Bass and gently began to trace the designs of his shell. He poked his head out to show interest in her coffee cup and she chuckled. "I'm sure Maura would tell you about a hundred reasons why you can't have this," Jane reasoned with him. She reached onto the counter to pull a strawberry out of his bowl of treats and put it on the floor in front of him. He ate while she drank coffee and patted his shell. "I missed you too, little buddy."

"It's good to see you two are finally getting along," Maura commented. Jane hadn't heard the ME come down the stairs.

"Yeah, well what can I say? He's easy to get along with," Jane shrugged. "He doesn't talk back."

"No, he just silently judges you," Maura joked.

"I made your coffee for you," Jane pointed to the mug on the counter and Maura walked over to take it. She then kneeled down on the ground on Bass's other side and smiled down at her tortoise. "What are we going to do when he's two hundred pounds and can't fit through the doorways anymore?" Jane asked and Maura grinned at her, surprised that Jane had remembered the fact about African spurred tortoises weight possibilities.

"Get a bigger place, I guess," Maura laughed and Bass looked gratefully at her. "That should be the last strawberry he eats this week… you can give him cactus pads if you'd like to, though," Maura smiled at Jane and the Detective blushed.

"Hey, I just gave him the strawberry as a thank you for taking care of you while I was gone," Jane said in defense and Maura laughed.

"Yeah? It has nothing to do with you missing him?" Maura asked.

"Absolutely not," Jane lied as she continued to trace the patterns of his shell. He thought Jane's sarcasm was entertaining. In the moment of bliss, both women were surprised to hear that it was Maura's phone to interrupt them.

"Doctor Isles," she answered, "I'll be there soon," Maura hung up and glanced apologetically at Jane, they both waited for the next phone to ring.

"Rizzoli," Jane grumbled, "Yeah, be right there," she hung up. "Well, so much for a Sunday off, huh?" She chuckled out.

"I can see in the muscles of your face that you're excited, Jane," Maura teased as she finished her coffee. "You don't need to pretend not to be, I'm excited to work too," Jane stood up with a grin and helped the ME to her feet.

"You're the perfect woman," Jane complimented and kissed Maura's cheek.

When Jane walked onto a crime scene the energy of the entire area changed. Whoever used to be in charge was no longer the one people looked to and her long, powerful strides to the scene showed a kind of ownership over the domain. It was easy to see that she was in her element.

Maura's sure direction as she walked toward where she was needed left onlookers in a state of awe. Her face was an impenetrable mask of professionalism. Maura was equally as confident as Jane and the well-coordinated direction she gave to her colleagues was impressive to everyone who witnessed it.

Alone, each woman's presence at a crime scene changed the entire dynamic of the case but when they exited a vehicle at a crime scene together... when they stepped under the yellow police tape lines as a team, their coworkers struggled to understand why anybody would commit murder at all knowing that these two women were on the job. When Jane and Maura strutted confidently toward the corpse of a crime scene every onlooker got a distinct impression that the case was already solved.

"What do we got?" Jane asked Frost as she entered the house and Maura went to examine the body of a man who was bound with zip ties.

"Definitely foul play," Frankie said as he walked into the house.

"Stop jumping to conclusions like that or you'll never make Detective," Jane chastised him.

"No, he's right, Jane," Maura spoke from across the room. "His carotid artery was punctured with a small, sharp blade. It's odd though, there's not nearly enough blood here… it is possible that he was killed somewhere else and moved here." Maura assessed and Frankie grinned at his sister who rolled her eyes at him having been right.

"Oh God," Frost muttered before he covered his mouth with his hand.

"Come on, Frost," Frankie spoke and clapped the other man on the shoulder. "It's not that bad, come here." Frankie indicated that Frost should follow him closer to the body and Jane was surprised to see Frost listened. "Don't worry, Maur, I won't touch anything," Frankie courteously explained to Maura before he used his hands to block Frost's view of the wound. "See, Frost? It's not so bad if you just see this part of him, right?" Frankie asked and Frost shook his head to agree. The younger Rizzoli exposed a little bit more of the wound and looked to see that Barry was still doing okay. Frankie slowly exposed more and more of the wound to the Detective and Maura watched Frankie proudly. The younger Rizzoli finally removed his hands completely from blocking Frost's view and he smiled over to the Detective. "Not so bad, huh?"

"Not so bad," Frost agreed, "Thanks, Frankie."

"Yeah, of course," Frankie shrugged and blushed as he caught his sister grinning at him. "Alright, I'm gonna go do crowd control, yell at me if you need anything."

"Anything?" Jane asked him and she indicated to Frost suggestively to tease her brother.

"Oh, shuddup," Frankie sassed before he left. Barry and Maura missed the exchange because Maura was too busy pointing to the would and explaining what had happened to the man. Jane was pleased to see that Frost was holding himself together well. Jane began to intake the rest of the scene. Something purple caught the corner of her eye and she leaned down next to the couch to see what it was.

"Hey, hand me a glove, Maur?" Jane requested and Maura followed the request. Jane snapped the glove on and reached under the couch to pull out a shockingly purple petunia. She held it up to show Maura and the ME gasped.

"Please tell me your intestine thinks that's a coincidence," Maura pleaded and Jane solemnly shook her head in the negative. "The zip ties… the puncture wound to the carotid… Jane, a petunia?" Maura listed the similarities between this murder and connected it with Casey Jones's case. "What does it mean?"

"I don't know, Maur," Jane admitted, "but I'm sure as hell gonna find out."

"You think we have a copycat?" Frost asked as he put the pieces together.

"Can't be… we left the details about the flowers out of the press," Jane explained and Maura's eyebrows drew together in concern.

"Did we ever find out where Casey had gotten the flowers from?" Maura asked and Frost shook his head.

"Looks like Casey had an apprentice," Jane said with forced calm.

"You think he was working with a partner when he kidnapped Maura?" Frost asked Jane and the Detective shrugged.

"He never mentioned a partner when I was in that basement with him," Maura informed them.

"Somebody bag this and go get Frankie," Jane commanded and one of the lab techs took the flower from Jane and another beat cop went to get her brother.

"You want coffee?" Frankie asked as he reentered the house.

"I wish," Jane scoffed. "Listen, we think this case might be connected to Casey Jones somehow. He might have had a partner or an apprentice and until I know for sure who did this I need you to stay with Maura, okay?" She asked and Frankie nodded.

"Of course!" He said and he immediately moved to stand beside the ME as she paused her examination.

"Jane, you don't need to-" The Detective cut off the ME.

"No, the last time this was happening I left you alone in the morgue for less than an hour and you could have died, Maura, I'm not gonna risk that again," Jane spoke resolutely. There was no arguing with this Jane. "I can't be the one to guard you and I don't trust anybody more than Frankie, so just deal with it, okay?" Maura smiled slightly at how much Jane cared for her.

"Thank you, Frankie," Maura said and the younger Rizzoli waved her off.

"Best job I've had all week," he complimented.

"Who's going to make sure you're safe?" Maura asked Jane and the Detective opened her mouth to argue but Frost cut her off.

"Me, obviously. She's my partner and my friend," he spoke to Maura and ignored Jane as she no doubt wanted to argue that she didn't need protection. "I won't let anything happen to her and I won't let her do anything stupid," he grinned at the ME and then looked pointedly to Jane who rolled her eyes.

"When have I ever done something stupid?" She asked and as her three team members opened their mouths to start listing off time's she'd been reckless, she raised her hands to quiet them. "Okay, okay, Frost can babysit me," she sassed and Maura nodded.

Jane stood beside Maura as the blonde checked swabs of material under one of the lab microscopes. Frankie sat on one of the stools and spun slightly while Susie worked on the vic's dental records.

"So, do we know how he died yet?" Jane asked impatiently. Maura sighed and ignored her.

"Leave her alone, Jane," Frankie said in Maura's defense. "Why isn't Frost with you, I thought he was supposed to be babysitting you."

"He was, he took the elevator down with me. Apparently I have to stay here until he gets back with Korsak," Jane rolled her eyes and Frankie frowned slightly. "Why do you ask, do you miss your boyfriend?"

"He's not my boyfr- Okay, why am I talking about this with you?" Frankie stood from his stool and scowled at Jane. "Susie, will you keep an eye on Maura for a few minutes?"

"Of course!" Susie smiled.

"Oh, come on, Frankie, I was just kidding!" Jane called after her brother as he left the morgue to stand and wait for the elevator.

"You should go apologize to him…" Maura looked up from her microscope to gaze at Jane.

"I'm in the middle of a case… I'm waiting for you to get me results!" Jane argued.

"Well it's going to take some time for me to get anything, especially with you interrupting my process every five seconds," Maura argued and Jane rolled her eyes.

"I did my gumshoe thing, it's the least you can do to get me some science!" Jane sassed. The ME did not like to be rushed. Maura straightened her back and turned away from her work completely. She lifted her chin to stare directly into Jane's eyes as she crossed her arms over her chest. It was a pose that dared Jane to continue.

"Wh-what are you doing?" Jane stammered.

"Waiting for you to leave," Maura responded resolutely and glanced pointedly toward the door.

"You're being ridiculous," Jane grinned and argued, thinking at first that Maura was joking. When the ME smiled and raised her eyebrows right back at Jane, the Detective's face fell and she pouted when she realized that Maura was serious.

"...Fine, bye," Jane muttered and walked away, glancing over her shoulder with a pout that Maura tried not to find adorable. Jane caught up with her brother in the hallway and grabbed his arm to make him turn to face her.

"Hey, Frankie, I'm sorry," Jane stated and Frankie rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, I know…" He stated sadly.

"Wanna tell me what's up?" Jane tried to make her brother open up and the younger Rizzoli sighed.

"I don't know. Did he tell you what happened in the gym?" Frankie asked and Jane hesitated before she nodded. "Okay, well we haven't had the chance to talk since that happened and I don't know how he took it…"

"He said he liked it," Jane said, "he said it was nice, and no, I did not ask for more detail than that," Jane joked to ease some of the tension.

"Well, then why hasn't he brought it up?" Frankie asked his sister.

"Well, you kissed him, right? Maybe he's waiting for you to talk about it since you're the one who started it," She reasoned. "Or maybe we all have really busy lives and he just hasn't had a chance yet." The elevator doors dinged open to reveal Frost and Korsak.

"I thought you were supposed to be watching Maura," Korsak spoke to Frankie.

"Susie is watching her, plus she's right there, I can see her," Frankie defended himself as he pointed through the glass doors that lead to the morgue.

"He knows what he's doing," Frost defended Frankie to Korsak who shrugged. Frankie tried not to blush.

"Alright, you guys here to get me?" Jane interrupted.

"Yeah, coffee first?" Frost suggested and Jane stepped directly onto the elevator at the suggestion.

"God, yes," She joked and her team chuckled. "See you later, Frankie."

"Yeah, come see me if you get a chance," Frost smiled at him and Frankie felt his cheeks heat up. The younger Rizzoli nodded before the lift's doors closed and he went back to making sure Maura was safe.

"I've identified the victim," Maura said as she and Frankie walked into the cafe where Jane, Korsak, and Frost were getting coffee.

"Yeah? Who is he?" Frost asked.

"Zachary Brown, a former teacher," Maura explained, "he and his wife Elanor went missing last year."

"Last year?" Jane asked in surprise, "but his wounds were fresh, weren't they?"

"It was hard to tell, the autopsy indicated that he'd been frozen to death but I have no way to detect how long he stayed frozen. His wounds occurred post-mortem, which could explain the lack of blood at the scene. His wounds were inflicted after he'd thawed."

"That's disgusting," Frost said as he grimaced at the display of food in the cafe. Korsak smiled at him and bit into a jelly donut.

"What about the wife?" Jane asked.

"She was never found," Frankie said, "think she could be part of it?"

"I'm not ruling anything out, let's get a photo of her and put out a fresh BOLO," Jane said. A small blonde woman walked into the cafe with Angela and the Rizzoli matriarch smiled at the sight of her children.

"Frankie! Just who I wanted to see!" Angela claimed brightly.

"Yeah?" He asked, "why's that?"

"I wanted to introduce you to my new friend, Dana!" Angela smiled and Frankie looked to the small blonde who stood beside his mother. At a quick glance, she could almost be mistaken for Maura and Frankie looked at his mother like she was crazy. He stuck his hand out politely to the woman despite his discomfort.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Frankie," he smiled politely.

"Dana," She stuck out her hand and smiled back at him. "Your mother tells me you're on your way to becoming a detective?" She flirted with him and Frost leaned to mutter into Jane's ear.

"If your mom is trying to set up all her kids with hot blonde women, you should prepare her to be very disappointed" He joked and Jane elbowed him.

"You jealous?" Jane muttered back and Frost scoffed.

"I thought you could show her around the precinct a bit before her shift starts, she'll be working for me now!" Angela said brightly and Frankie blushed.

"Well, I have to keep an eye on Maura," Frankie stated.

"Why? She's a grown woman, she can take care of herself," Angela pressed.

"Well, because-" Frankie went to inform his mother of the case but Jane kicked him.

"No reason!" She interrupted. She did not want her mother to know that someone might have been stalking her again, "You go on ahead and show her around, Frankie, I want to ask Doctor Isles about the lab results anyway," Jane waved him off and he sputtered. Frankie looked toward Frost and shrugged in apology.

"Let's go," Jane spoke, "See ya later, Ma," she waved as her team left to go to the bullpen. They sat at their cluster of desks and tried to theorize about what all the current evidence meant.

"Man, we need to get someone to look into all those flower shops again to see if we can find anything," Korsak groaned and Jane rubbed her eyes.

"I had no luck last time," Frost complained.

"Put a newbie on it," Jane waved off and Frost grinned. He pulled out his cellphone and pressed a couple of buttons. Jane saw an image of her brother's face light up on Frost's screen before he held the phone to his ear.

"Are you calling him just to get him away from Dana?" Jane teased.

"Uhh… No?" Frost said in defense of himself.

"Sure, you're not jealous," Jane chided and Maura tried to hide her grin while Korsak laughed.

"No, I'm not," Frost argued as the phone rang. "I'm not jealous, Jane, I just have a weird feeling about Dana, that's all!"

"Yeah, it's called jealousy," Jane chuckled. "Don't be embarrassed, it's just evolution making you want to protect him from other people of interest," Jane explained and Maura smiled at the fact that Jane had remembered her explanation of jealousy. Frost frowned as Frankie's phone went to voicemail. "They're probably in the elevator," Jane suggested. "What do you know about our vic's wife, Elanor?" Jane turned to ask Maura.

"Nothing, just that they went missing last year," Maura informed her.

"When last year?" Korsak asked.

"A few days after you started back at work, Jane," Frost informed the brunette as he typed on his computer.

"Okay, so it definitely has something to do with Casey," Jane mused aloud. "A couple goes missing a few days after Maura and I meet, the same time Casey started to fly off the rails, and now we find the husband with Casey's exact wounds with a purple petunia?" Jane shook her head. "It's all connected somehow…"

"Oh no," Frost breathed, "I think I know how it's all connected…" He said cryptically before Maura moved to look at his computer screen and gasped.

"What is it?" Jane asked impatiently. Maura and Frost looked fearfully into each other's eyes before he turned his monitor to face Jane. Korsak moved to look at the picture too. "Why do you have a picture of Dana on your screen? You can't run a search for every single person my brother talks to, Frost-" Jane began to complain but then stopped as she read the caption of the image.

'Elanor Brown, 27, MISSING PERSON.'

"Oh my god," Jane said and then she ran to press the lockdown button for the precinct.

Security cameras had been added all around the precinct after Maura had been taken, so it didn't take long for Frost to find a video of Frankie showing Elanor the parking garage. 'Dana' had pretended to faint and Frankie, polite as ever, had led her over to his car so that she could sit down. He'd gotten in the car too, presumably to comfort her and that's when Elanor tased him. Jane watched the video several times, and they'd put a BOLO out on her brother's car but there were no hits. They researched Elanor Brown and found that she had owned a flower shop before she'd gone missing. They learned that she'd failed out of medical school and that her maiden name was Steele.

"Looks like they were working together for quite a while… Dr. Steele was carved into Jane Doe's chest, remember?" Korsak spoke.

"Yeah, I thought it was just an anagram for the Dr. Leon Sternsdale reference…" Jane looked confusedly at the computer screen before she started pacing. "She started to work with Casey pretty quickly after she was abducted…"

"Do you think she was Casey's first victim?" Frost asked Jane as the Detective paced. "I mean, she does look pretty similar to Maura and the timeline matches…"

"But why would she help him?" Maura countered, "what kind of motive could she have for helping him?"

"I don't know, maybe it has something to do with the husband?" Frost suggested.

"Yeah, threaten the husband to control the wife… it works well…" Jane muttered. "Hoyt used that tactic all the time."

"But why is she still behaving this way?" Maura asked. She knew first hand what it was like being exposed to Casey Jones's insanity and was having a hard time imagining ever wanting to help him.

"Could be lots of things, Maur, you know that," Jane spoke kindly and Maura sighed before she nodded.

"Stockholm syndrome… need for control… sense of power," Maura started to list and Frost felt a chill run down his spine.

"We need to find Frankie," Frost spoke and his phone rang. He picked it up quickly. "Frost here… what do you have..? Take a picture of it and send it to my cell…" He finished the phone call and looked at Jane.

"What, Frost?" Jane impatiently asked. Her brother's life was on the line.

"They guys we sent to her old flower shop found a note for you, they're sending it now…" Frost informed her, and they all huddled around his phone after it chimed to indicate the message had arrived.

Jane,

I will release your brother on one condition.
You must meet me at your old secret hideout and you must come alone.

If you bring anyone else, I'll know.

Meet me there at the same time you used to frequent it or your brother will die.
Only then will I ensure his safety; he isn't the Rizzoli I want to hurt but I will if you don't listen.

Dr. Steele

"Jane, where is she talking about?" Frost asked but Jane read the note again and didn't answer. "Jane?"

"You can't be thinking about going," Maura spoke firmly and Jane turned to look at her.

"Maur, she's got Frankie," Jane stated needlessly.

"Yes and she's just using him to get to you," Maura argued.

"So? She still has him!" Jane argued right back.

"That doesn't mean you suddenly start acting like a sister and stop being a great detective!" Maura shouted.

"We're here to help, Jane, we want him back too but we're not going to let you walk blindly into a trap on the off chance that Frankie will be there… at this point, we don't even know if he's… alive." Frost's voice cracked with the last word and Jane ran a hand through her hair.

"Well, I can't just stand around and do nothing!" Jane yelled and was going to continue but Frost's computer made a dinging sound and she waited for him to explain what it was.

"Frankie is on the move…" Frost said and then pointed to a little red dot that was moving through the streets of Boston, "or at least his phone is on the move…"

"Great, get units on it!" Jane shouted and Frost picked up his phone. They watched the little red dot on the screen move quickly in a straight line directly toward the Charles River.

Jane, Maura, Korsak, and Frost stood on the pier of the river as they waited for a crew to pull a vehicle out of the water. The crane slowly lifted Frankie's car out of the shore and Jane's entire body tensed as the crane moved the car back onto solid land.

"Please tell me he's not in there…" Jane spoke and Korsak cleared the emotion from his throat as he approached the vehicle.

"It's clear, Janie, nobody is in the car," he informed her.

"You think she wanted us to find this?" Frost asked as he reached into the car to try to find Frankie's phone.

"Nah, no way," Korsak responded, "nobody would have noticed a car driving itself into the river in this area… she just wanted to ditch it."

"They must be nearby, then," Frost spoke. "Hey Maura, are these the same zip ties we found on the husband?" Frost indicated toward the vehicle and the ME moved to verify.

"Yes, what do you think that indicates, Jane?" Maura asked and looked up to try to find the Detective. "Jane?"

Jane watched as her girlfriend, partner, and Seargent did an intake of the vehicle. She noted that the three of them were distracted and she noticed that the crew of crane operators were also focusing on the vehicle. She watched her closest friends try to piece together where the car had come from and her heart swelled and broke at the same time. She already knew where the car had come from… she looked down at her watch and realized she had less than an hour until the meetup time Elanor had requested. She glanced back to the people she loved most in the world and then dipped behind a cargo hold. The group of people she loved was incomplete without her little brother and Jane had always been the kind of sister to sacrifice for her family. With that, she turned and started running away from the river, up the street she'd driven down and toward her old Sunday school Church building. She heard Maura calling her name in the distance but she could not turn around.

Jane approached the Church greenhouse and walked quietly through the back door with her gun drawn. She noticed that the vegetables that used to be grown in it when she was a kid had been replaced with flowers. Orange lilies bloomed in the room along with purple petunias. A small bed of black roses was displayed proudly behind where her brother laid motionless on the ground.

"Frankie!" Jane breathed out and walked forward. She immediately felt cool metal press into the back of her neck and heard the familiar sound of a gun being cocked. "If you fucking laid a finger on my brother I will beat you into the ground so hard that you'll wish Casey would have killed you," Jane threatened menacingly and Elanor laughed.

"Too bad I'm the one with the advantage," Elanor chuckled out and pressed the barrel harder into Jane's scalp. "Drop your gun or he dies." Jane listened and gently leaned down to place her gun on the floor. "Good, now walk back out of here like everything is normal and go get in the driver's seat on the grey Nissan Micra parked outside. Try anything funny and Frankie dies." Jane followed the orders after a long, studious glance toward her brother. Once she verified that he was breathing, she slowly turned to take the car keys from Elanor and do as she'd been told.

"She can't have gone far, Maura," Korsak placed a hand on Maura's shoulder as she tried to stay calm.

"Barry, we have to figure out where the meetup was," Maura pleaded and Frost nodded before he pulled his phone out to read the note again.

"This isn't helpful, it just says 'secret hideout,'" he complained as he handed his phone to Maura so that she and Korsak could read the note too. "That could be anything!"

"Has to be from when they were kids, though, right?" Korsak suggested and the other two people looked at him in confusion. "Well, adults don't really have secret hideouts…"

"Oh, I thought it was just something siblings would understand," Maura mused out loud as she considered the note from a new perspective. "What has Frankie told you about their childhood?" She asked Frost who shrugged.

"The usual stuff I guess," he responded, "nuclear family, dinner every night, catholic school…" he listed all the generic knowledge he could remember.

"It's Sunday!" Maura shouted suddenly and the men looked at her expectantly. "They're Catholic! Obviously, the meetup is today, and soon if Jane left so suddenly, and she's complained to me multiple times about how she hated Sunday school."

"Yeah!" Frost agreed, "Frankie said that they used to climb out of the church window and hide in the greenhouse to avoid the nuns."

"What church did they go to?" Korsak asked and both Maura and Frost shrugged worriedly. "I'll call Angela…"

"She'll panic…" Maura murmured. Korsak nodded as he dialed.

"Hey, Angela, a couple of friends of mine asked me about Catholic schools in the area and I was wondering where Jane and her brothers went… St. Raphaels? Now do they provide Sunday School there too or was there a separate church for that..? Right on the river, no way…" He kept talking to her casually as Frost wrote down the names of the places Korsak was saying. The Sargent indicated that they should follow him to his car and he continued to discreetly get information out of the Rizzoli matriarch. "Listen, I have another call coming in, thanks for your help, Ang, it means a lot!" Korsak hung up. "There's a church right up the road from here where they used to go,"

"What are we waiting for?" Frost shouted as he slipped into the vehicle with his team. Korsak drove them quickly to the greenhouse. They noticed a car parked in the church parking lot but thought nothing of it… it was Sunday after all. Maura waited by the car as Korsak took the front entrance and Frost entered through the back. The sight of all the flowers made them sure they were in the right place.

"Frankie!" Frost shouted as he saw the younger man writhing slightly on the floor. "Frankie, where'd they go? Where's Jane?" Frankie groaned in response, "go get Maura, he's hurt," Frost shouted to Korsak, who turned to get Maura. By the time he walked back to the parking lot, Maura was nowhere to be seen and all Korsak noticed was the outline of a small gray car zooming away from him. It was too far to get a plate, but he did recognize the make and model.

As Maura waited outside, she noticed a small grey car parked beside the church. Her eyes widened in surprise as she recognized the driver and she walked over toward the vehicle. She could see Jane's lips moving but didn't notice anybody else in the vehicle. She approached slowly and the passenger side window rolled down to reveal Elanor hidden behind Jane's seat pointing a gun to Jane's head.

"Hello, Doctor Isles," Elanor grinned winningly. "Get in the car or I'll shoot."

"Don't get in the car, Maura!" Jane shouted and Elanor used the butt of the gun to hit her in the temple, causing a stream of blood to start flowing.

"Keep quiet, Jane," she threatened, "Maura here is going to get in the car and then you're going to drive exactly where I tell you to… unless one of you wants to watch the other bleed out," Elanor mused as she continued to hold her gun against Jane's head.

"Maura…" Jane whined as a tear rolled down her cheek. The ME could do nothing but follow orders. She couldn't let Jane die so she opened the passenger door and slid into the vehicle.

"Good choice," Elanor complimented, "now grab Jane's handcuffs and secure your wrists," she directed Maura who followed the order. Once Maura had the cuffs securely in place, Elanor reached over and tased her.

"Hey!" Jane yelled and went to reach for the ME.

"Hands on the wheel!" Elanor yelled. Jane hesitated but listened. "Now drive to your apartment," she ordered.

"My apartment?" Jane asked.

"Are you deaf or stupid? Yes, drive to your apartment… they won't think to look there and by the time they find you, it'll be too late," Elanor explained and Jane drove steadily through the streets of Boston toward her now almost empty place.

Once they had arrived at the building, Elanor eyed Maura nervously and she directed Jane to step out of the vehicle. She guided Jane up the stairs of the building and once they entered the apartment, Elanor used zip ties to secure Jane to the radiator in the living room. Jane sat with her hands tied behind her back and her assailant left her there with threats of harming Maura should she make any noise.

Elanor took the handcuff keys from Jane and moved back to the car to wait for the ME to wake up. Maura stirred in her seat and groaned at the soreness of her body. She felt like she was moving in slow motion and struggled to make her brain work as fast as it normally did. She looked over to Elanor who was sitting in the driver's seat and pointing a gun at her.

"Where's Jane?" Maura asked.

"Upstairs," Elanor explained and indicated to the apartment building. Maura's face scrunched up in confusion at the sight of Jane's old apartment building. She'd been helping Jane move everything over to her house and hadn't expected to return.

"What are we doing here?" Maura wondered out loud through the muddled fog of her mind.

"Stop asking stupid questions and do what I say," Elanor impatiently threatened. "Now get out and walk up to Jane's apartment like everything is fine." Maura lazily lifted herself forward in the seat and slumped against the dashboard as her head spun.

"I… don't think I can walk yet," Maura claimed as she discreetly reached into her purse for her phone.

"You're gonna have to if you don't want to get shot," Elanor threatened her to make sure the other blonde wasn't playing any tricks.

"I can't move my legs," Maura reiterated as she unlocked her phone with her fingerprint and clicked on her call log. She couldn't see the names from her view so she hoped that it would find someone who could help. She leaned back in her seat and looked to Elanor. "These may cause some suspicion," She indicated to the cuffs and Elanor held the key in the air in between them.

"Try anything funny and you'll never see Jane again," the other blonde threatened and Maura nodded her understanding.

Frost tended to Frankie while they waited for an ambulance to arrive.

"You better find my sister," Frankie spoke to the pair of men.

"We will don't worry," Frost rubbed Frankie's hair as he attempted to soothe the younger man. Frankie was still dazed from being tased and Frost didn't know what else to do to make him feel better.

"Ma is gonna be so pissed," he drawled out.

"Frankie, do you know where Elanor was taking them?" Korsak interrupted.

"Nnnnnope," Frankie supplied, "she just asked me about church stuff… God, I'm so stupid. I thought it was Maura."

"Shh, hey, no you're not, you didn't know why she was asking," Frost defended Frankie against himself as the ambulance pulled into the lot.

"Still nothing with the BOLO," Korsak complained as he looked at his phone. "Wait… do you hear that?" He asked and Frost nodded. The sound of a phone was emanating from Jane's cruiser. Korsak ran to the car and flipped Jane's phone open. "Hello? Janie, are you there? Hello?" He spoke into the phone but got no response. "Frost, I need you to start a trace!" He ordered Frost who quickly ducked to kiss Frankie's cheek before he followed the command.

Maura finally entered Jane's apartment a few steps ahead of Elanor and she rushed to Jane's side.

"Are you okay?" They asked each other in unison. Elanor walked over and pushed Maura to the side so that the ME fell onto the ground from her crouching position in front of Jane.

"He abducted me because I look like you! I'm going to take Jane away from you just like you took him away from me! This is all your fault!" Elanor shouted and held the gun toward Maura so that the ME wouldn't move.

"Why did you help him?" Maura asked and Elanor looked at her in disgust.

"What else could I do?" She yelled, "he took away the only thing that ever mattered to me and I couldn't do anything to stop it! But this? This I can do!" Elanor kept her gun trained on Maura to keep the ME in place as she reached into her pocket to reveal a pocket knife. She moved toward Jane and held the knife to the brunette's throat.

"You don't have to do this," Jane spoke softly but Elanor just laughed.

"I want to!" She muttered. "He made me watch… at first, I didn't want to put Zach in that freezer but he made me. He wouldn't hurt me as long as I listened to him." Jane and Maura listened to Elanor speak in hopes of finding something to use against her. "Charles like to show me how to use knives, do you see?" Elanor asked and then lifted her sleeve to reveal dozens of scars on her arm.

"He can't hurt you anymore, Elanor," Maura tried to reason with the other blonde.

"He wasn't hurting me," Elanor scoffed, "he was teaching me. I love to learn. He loved me because I liked to learn… I'm a doctor, you know." Elanor explained.

"No, you failed out of medical school," Jane reminded Elanor and the woman's body tensed.

"Charles didn't care about that part… he loved me," she argued with Jane.

"No, he loved me… he used you because he couldn't get to Maura to hurt me," Jane retorted calmly.

"Shut up!" Elanor yelled.

"Why did he kidnap the other girl?" Jane questioned. "The other girl that looks like you, do you even know her name?"

"Shut up!" Elanor repeated. "He called her Maura… I don't know her real name. I hated her. She got all of his attention. I hated her."

"Is that why you killed her?" Maura asked.

"Yes," Elanor spit out, "I am not you! He wouldn't shut up about you. No matter how well I listened or what I did to help him, he would always go back and play with 'Maura.'"

"Because he wanted you both to be me," Maura explained.

"I am not a second rate version of you!" Elanor shouted and the blade she was holding knicked Jane in the neck. She smiled down at the blood she'd drawn and moved to continue to press the blade deeper but froze at the sound of loud sirens. She moved to look out the window and saw several police cars pulling in front of the building. She cursed loudly and used the pocket knife to free Jane from the radiator and pulled the woman tightly in front of her to be used as a human shield.

"I am not dying today!" Elanor complained, "you lead the way downstairs or I will blow her brains out," she threatened Maura and the ME nodded, glad that her phone call had done the trick. She led the way to the front door of the lobby, people in the hallways closed their door to the sight of the three women. As soon as they were on the main floor of the building Elanor directed Maura to go outside and tell the crowd the plan.

"She's got Jane," Maura spoke loudly to both Frost and Korsak as she exited the building with her hands up. A barrage of police cars was lined up around the building and they all had their guns at the ready. She walked with her hands up toward the safety of the barricade and Korsak looked her over quickly to make sure she was alright. "Forget about me, she's using Jane as a shield so she can get away, we need to stop them!" Maura panicked and the front doors of the building opened once more. Sure enough, Elanor had Jane pinned closely to her body and nobody could get a clear shot.

"Nobody move!" Elanor threatened from behind Jane. Frost decided to try to ease his way behind the cars toward the side of the barricade to see if he could get a better shot. While Elanor was distractedly talking to Korsak he moved out from behind the last car so that he could take aim. The woman noticed him and quickly shot directly into his chest. He collapsed to the ground and his gun scattered across the pavement. Maura moved behind the cars after Frost. She passed his gun and moved out from behind the barricade to triage him. He had a punctured lung for sure. Maura knew that Elanor wouldn't shoot at her; the other blonde wanted Maura to suffer alive and alone in the world. "I said nobody moves!"

"Shoot her!" Jane pleaded to her friends. Maura looked on in horror as Frost's skin paled and his breathing because short and erratic. "Maura, he'll die! Somebody shoot her!" Jane begged. Maura knew that the words were the truth. She knew that if someone didn't get to Frost fast that he would die. She triaged him as best she could and moved back behind the car. Elanor started to drag Jane further up the street and the brunette struggled all the while, begging for anybody to aim at the crazy woman who held her. Maura found Frost's gun again and snuck back out behind the car near where Barry lay on the pavement. She took a few steps further and had a clear shot of Elanor. Maura hoped that either Elanor would turn her body and expose herself to the policeman's guns or that Elanor would shoot Maura instead, giving Jane a chance to grab the gun and save herself. Maura Maura took a deep breath and prepared herself to die so that Jane and Barry could live. Jane noticed Maura out of the corner of her eye at the same time Elanor did. Elanor kept her grip tight on Jane as she tried to aim the ME. Jane's eyebrows drew together as she watched Elanor's gun lift toward the woman she loved and she reached out to grab the weapon. Jane quickly drew the gun toward her own abdomen and pulled the trigger, knowing that the bullet would fly through her and into the woman who held her captive. Maura looked on in shock as Jane shot herself to protect everyone else and she rushed over to the brunette as she fell to the ground. Maura scraped her knees on the pavement as she kneeled beside the woman she loved. Jane was still awake, which was a good sign. Maura tried to feel confident in Jane's odds as she was carried into the back of an ambulance. Maura saw a small box fall out of Jane's blazer and she bent to pick it up. It was a ring box. She put it quickly into her pocket and stepped into the ambulance after Jane, hoping beyond hope that the Detective would live.

Nothing like near-death experiences to bring people closer together, right?
The next chapter will be extra long and fluffy, I promise!